Lead Cloud Engineer: AWS & Kubernetes Migration Architect

EPAM Systems; Chile; On-site; CLP 40,000,000 - 55,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certificate

Global career opportunities

Volunteer and community involvement

EPAM Employee Groups

Award-winning culture

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Chile seeks a hands-on Lead Cloud Engineer to guide discovery, define target-state architecture, and lead lift-and-shift migrations from legacy or locally hosted applications to AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms. You will shape designs, plans, and execution with engineering and architecture peers.

Responsibilities include running workshops, creating migration and test plans, overseeing execution, and driving containerization and CI/CD strategy using Terraform and Ansible.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cloud development experience with AWS and migration programs.
• 1+ years of leadership experience guiding architecture decisions and supporting engineers.
• Strong discovery and workshop facilitation skills for requirements gathering and alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead application and infrastructure discovery to assess legacy and third-party hosted workloads
• Define target-state architecture for AWS, including integration needs and landing zone requirements
• Determine Kubernetes and EKS requirements and outline high-level platform configurations
• Run workshops with clients and solution and security architects to align on approach
• Create migration plans and test plans that support largely lift-and-shift delivery
• Oversee migration execution and support engineering teams with technical direction and unblockers
• Build containerization approaches and guide creation of container-ready application versions
• Design CI/CD pipelines to enable repeatable build, test, and deployment processes
• Provision and validate infrastructure through Terraform to meet the agreed target state
• Act as a hands-on SME for cloud and DevOps tasks when deeper expertise is required

Skills

Leadership

Requirements gathering

Communication

English proficiency

Cloud discovery

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

EKS

CI/CD

Job description

EPAM Systems in Chile seeks a hands-on Lead Cloud Engineer to guide discovery, define target-state architecture, and lead lift-and-shift migrations from legacy or locally hosted applications to AWS and Kubernetes-based platforms. You will shape designs, plans, and execution with engineering and architecture peers.

Responsibilities include running workshops, creating migration and test plans, overseeing execution, and driving containerization and CI/CD strategy using Terraform and Ansible.